2002 FIFA World Cup squads
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIFA World Cup, an international association football competition that serves as the championship for men's national teams. It was held in Japan and South Korea from 31 May to 30 June and was contested by 32 teams.[1] Each national association was required to name a provisional squad of 23 players, expanded from 22 in previous tournaments,[citation needed] by 21 May 2002.[2] The players' ages, caps and clubs are listed as of 31 May 2002, the opening day of the tournament. The oldest player was defender Jan Heintze of Denmark at 38 years, 293 days old; the youngest was Femi Opabunmi, a 17-year-old midfielder for Nigeria.[3] Group ADenmarkHead coach: Morten Olsen
FranceHead coach: Roger Lemerre
SenegalHead coach: Bruno Metsu
UruguayHead coach: Víctor Púa
Group BParaguayHead coach: Cesare Maldini
SloveniaHead coach: Srečko Katanec
Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted. South AfricaHead coach: Jomo Sono
SpainHead coach: José Antonio Camacho
Group CBrazilHead coach: Luiz Felipe Scolari
China PRHead coach: Bora Milutinović
Costa RicaHead coach: Alexandre Guimarães
TurkeyHead coach: Şenol Güneş
Group DPolandHead coach: Jerzy Engel
PortugalHead coach: António Oliveira
South KoreaHead coach: Guus Hiddink
United StatesHead coach: Bruce Arena
Group ECameroonHead coach: Winfried Schäfer
GermanyHead coach: Rudi Völler
Republic of IrelandHead coach: Mick McCarthy
Saudi ArabiaHead coach: Nasser Al-Johar
Group FArgentinaHead coach: Marcelo Bielsa
Originally, the squad was named with Ariel Ortega given shirt number 23 and Roberto Bonano number 24, as the Argentine Football Association had decided to retire the number 10 shirt in honour of Diego Maradona. FIFA, however, insisted that all squads were assigned with numbers ranging only from 1–23, prompting Argentina to amend their squad list. EnglandHead coach: Sven-Göran Eriksson
NigeriaHead coach: Festus Onigbinde
SwedenHead coaches: Lars Lagerbäck and Tommy Söderberg
Group GCroatiaHead coach: Mirko Jozić
Note: caps for Yugoslavia are not counted. EcuadorHead coach: Hernán Darío Gómez
ItalyHead coach: Giovanni Trapattoni
MexicoHead coach: Javier Aguirre
Group HBelgiumHead coach: Robert Waseige
JapanHead coach: Philippe Troussier
RussiaHead coach: Oleg Romantsev
Note: caps include those for USSR, CIS, and Russia, while those for other countries, such as Ukraine, are not counted. TunisiaHead coach: Ammar Souayah
Player representation by league
The Saudi Arabian squad was the only one made up entirely of players from their country's domestic league and the only one with no players from European clubs. The Cameroonian squad were made up entirely of players employed by overseas clubs, while the Irish squad was made up entirely by players in the English league. Although the Netherlands and Greece failed to qualify for the finals, their domestic leagues were represented by 18 and 10 players respectively. Altogether, there were 43 national leagues who had players in the tournament. Coaches representation by country
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